Rumor or reality

by Atiqur Rahman
March 3, 2010

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There are many rumors circulating in the air. Although it is quite difficult to finally discover whether these are simply rumors or are facts, someone should at least put up the issues on debate.

Here are some of the rumors:

1. Bangladeshi High Commissioner in India, Tareq Karim is learnt to have obtained US Green Card several years back, and in 2008 he became a citizen of that country. His entire family lives in United States near United DC more precisely at Maryland.

If the rumor is fact, then it will become a big question to many as to whether a individual, who is a citizen of some other country can become the envoy of Bangladesh to another country.

1. Bangladeshi state-minister Sohel Taj, MP is reportedly an American citizen along with other members of his family. If this is a fact, then it will raise question about the legitimacy of him running in the parliament election or becoming a minister in the country.

1. Recently included member of Bangladesh Awami League and son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Sajeeb Wajed Joy is a citizen of United States. His wife, Christine Ovemarie is a citizen of USA by birth. Possibly she comes from Jewish family back ground. Some though say Christine Ovemarie comes from Christian family back ground.

Their only daughter's name is Sophia. Though some media in Bangladesh call her Sophia Wajed, but according to documents, she is just Sophia. She is an American citizen by birth as well. Sophia was the name of an early, probably mythical, saint who died of grief after her three daughters were martyred. Legends about her probably arose as a result of medieval misunderstanding of the Hagia Sophia "Holy Wisdom", which was the name of a large basilica in Constantinople.

Sophia [a Greek feminine noun] is the Wisdom aspect of God. As a Wisdom Teacher Jesus was very closely related to the Sophia Tradition. Among the Hebrews one of the traditional names of God is the Shekinah, and, interestingly, it is a feminine gender noun. Many Hebrews saw her as the mother or feminine aspect of God. The early scribes [later called Rabbis] added Shekinah in biblical verses where the verb shakhan is used in relation to God. Shakhan literally means "to dwell" or "to live with", or even "to pitch one's tent." The Shekinah means the God-Who-Dwells-Within, and developed primarily after the destruction of the Temple of Solomon in 587 BCE, especially as it proffered hope to a people lost in bitter exile. To console an Israel in Diaspora, the comforting, forgiving and loyal presence of the Shekinah emerged. In the Talmud it says: "They were exiled to Babylon, the Shekinah with them. They were exiled to Egypt, the Shekinah with them." And, it says in Lamentations 1, 5, "Her children are gone into captivity," and immediately after [1,6], "From Zion her splendour is departed." [Note the use of "her" for God and "splendour" is also one of the ways to describe the Shekinah]. Other terms referring to the Shekinah are "the glory" and "radiance", and she was the cloud by day and pillar of fire by night that led the Israelites through the Sinai wilderness. She is also closely related to the Sophia tradition in the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament) in Proverbs and other books.

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